Job 18

Good News Translation

^5 (A)The light of the wicked will still be put out;
    its flame will never burn again.
⁶ The lamp in their tents will be darkened.
⁷ Their steps were firm, but now they stumble;
    they fall—victims of their own advice.
⁸ They walk into a net, and their feet are caught;
⁹     a trap catches their heels and holds them.
¹⁰ On the ground a snare is hidden;
    a trap has been set in their path.

¹¹ All around them terror is waiting;
    it follows them at every step.
¹² They used to be rich, but now they go hungry;
    disaster stands and waits at their side.
¹³ A deadly disease spreads over their bodies
    and causes their arms and legs to rot.
¹⁴ They are torn from the tents where they lived secure,
    and are dragged off to face King Death.
¹⁵ Now anyone may live in their tents—^[a]
    after sulfur is sprinkled to disinfect them!^[b]
16 Their roots and branches are withered and dry.
¹⁷ Their fame is ended at home and abroad;
    no one remembers them any more.
¹⁸ They will be driven out of the land of the living,
    driven from light into darkness.
¹⁹ They have no descendants, no survivors.
²⁰ From east to west, all who hear of their fate
    shudder and tremble with fear.
²¹ That is the fate of evil people,
    the fate of those who care nothing for God.